Meanings
Verb (1-dan, transitive)
1. to bend; to crook; to bow; to curve; to curl
2. to lean; to tilt; to incline; to slant
3. to bend (the truth); to distort; to twist; to pervert
4. to yield (a point); to depart (from a principle); to ignore (what one really thinks)
5. to pawn
Kanji used
curved
Pitch accent
げる
Top 4300
Used in vocabulary (11 in total)
to twist; to distort
to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double
to get angry; to become perverse
to bend (with great force); to twist; to wrench; to distort (the truth)
to bend over in the shape of the hiragana character ku; to bend forward from the waist to form a chevron shape
to get angry; to become perverse
to bend; to turn up; to turn down; to double
to become displeased; to get stubborn
Examples (8 in total)
I can't bend my right arm.
The boy didn't change his opinion.
Masuo can bend spoons.